NASA’s SpaceCraft Oxygen Recovery project utilizes this reaction aboard the International Space Station. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this reaction in which carbon dioxide and four hydrogen molecules form methane and two water molecules. This reaction is often run in tandem with the reverse water-gas shift reaction to improve efficiency.
ANSWER: Sabatier process [or Sabatier reaction]
[10h] Name this figure who repeats “O God” in a pantoum (“pan-TOOM”) about him “at 3 A.M.” This figure’s addiction to meth is a focus of a collection titled for When [this figure] Was an Aztec.
ANSWER: Natalie Diaz’s brother [accept When My Brother Was an Aztec]
[10m] This metal primarily catalyzes the Sabatier process. It’s not cobalt, but Murray Raney names a common hydrogenation catalyst composed of aluminum and a powdered alloy of this element.
ANSWER: nickel [or Ni; accept Raney nickel]
[10e] Natalie Diaz, the author of “When My Brother Was an Aztec,” collaborated with the current holder of this position, Ada Limón, on the project “Envelopes of Air.” This national position is appointed by the Library of Congress.
ANSWER: United States Poet Laureate [or Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]
[10e] The selectivity of the Sabatier process has seen use for methanation of trace carbon dioxide produced from hydrogen feed streams in this other industrial process, which converts nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia.
ANSWER: Haber–Bosch process
[10m] In a poem from “Envelopes of Air,” Diaz writes, “[this author] died today, and tomorrow is my birthday.” This New York School poet, who used the pantoum in the collection Some Trees, wrote the poem “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.”
ANSWER: John Ashbery
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